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Windows 64-bit, Android Linux (ARM) Open source: SimNow: 4.6.2 April 6, 2010: AMD K8 (Athlon 64 and Opteron) PC Windows 64-bit, Linux 64-bit: Freeware and Proprietary:
In January 2019, BlueStacks released a 64-bit version of BlueStacks 4 through its early access program, offering improved performance and memory usage by running on a 64-bit version of Android 7.1.2. [22]
The main hardware platform for Android is ARM (i.e. the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture and previously 32-bit such as ARMv7), and x86 and x86-64 architectures were once also officially supported in later versions of Android. [146] [147] [148] The unofficial Android-x86 project provided support for x86 architectures ahead of the official support.
Will Google's Android ever replace Microsoft's Windows? Analysts at Gartner think so; by 2017, the research firm expects Google's mobile operating system to have fully supplanted Microsoft's ...
Android x86 (ver. 4.0) on EeePC 701 4G. Android-x86 is an open source project that makes an unofficial porting of the Android mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance to run on devices powered by x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.
Because 64-bit drivers for most devices were unavailable until early 2007 (Vista x64), using a 64-bit version of Windows was considered a challenge. However, the trend has since moved toward 64-bit computing, more so as memory prices dropped and the use of more than 4 GB of RAM increased.
In 2012, Android devices with Intel processors began to appear, including phones [323] and tablets. While gaining support for 64-bit platforms, Android was first made to run on 64-bit x86 and then on ARM64. [324] [325] Since Android 5.0 Lollipop, 64-bit variants of all platforms are supported in addition to the 32-bit variants.
AMD64 (also variously referred to by AMD in their literature and documentation as “AMD 64-bit Technology” and “AMD x86-64 Architecture”) was created as an alternative to the radically different IA-64 architecture designed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard, which was backward-incompatible with IA-32, the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture.